There are not many blogs out there dedicated to cooking on a pellet smoker. I have been cooking, grilling & smoking over 35 yrs now. I recently bought a Traeger Lil Tex Elite pellet smoker & have cooked on it over six yrs. now. I would like to share recipes & info I have gained from cooking on it.
Update 2014: I have plenty of recipes here for the pellet smoker so I am now including other outdoor cooking and some of my indoor cooking too.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Flat Iron Limburger Cheeseburger

Jun 21

I had to try out my new Camp Chef iron griddle the wife got
me. I had it seasoned and ready to go. There is nothing better to me than some
smash burgers on a flat iron griddle. I wanted to grill some onions too and had
Tennessee tomatoes and some asparagus for a side. I also wanted to try some
limburger cheese on my burger, the wife wanted cheddar on hers.

I nuked two bacon slices to wrap the asparagus in and some
seasoning with olive oil.

The griddle heats up pretty fast so started it out on
Medium, after 10 minutes it was at 500+deg. so I dropped it down half way to
low. I used my Maverick infra-red to read the temp and was down to 400+deg. so
it was time to cook. I put the onions on with a little olive oil; let them
start to brown a little then pushed them to the side and got the burgers on. I
had 5 balls of 80-20 ground chuck I had seasoned with a little Pappy’s Choice.
I had sprayed a little olive oil on the griddle, added the burgers, let them
sizzle a bit then smashed them down. After 3 to 4 minutes I flipped them.

I added cheese to the wife’s; I would add the limburger
spread to mine inside. I had just enough room to toast one bun at a time while
the burgers cooked on the second side. I removed all and added the asparagus
bundles to brown up the bacon and cook.

There were two patties for each sandwich. The wife had some
of the grilled onions, tomato and lettuce on hers. I spread the limburger
cheese spread on the bottom patty and added a good pile of the grilled onions
to top off. I had a slice of tomato on the side. Those were great!!! After a
few bites my wife said “now that’s a good burger”!

Next time for the asparagus I would wrap with bacon and
pre-cook both some in the microwave since it was a little underdone. I was
happy with the griddle, and glad I could push the onions to the side to cook a
little slower and not get too done. The ideal griddle would be double over two
burners to have a hot and a warm area but this one will work fine for the wife
and me. I think you could get 8 burgers on it to cook for more.

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I started cooking when our children were in highschool & my wife worked.I was layed off during the summer & just kinda took over the kitchen & my wife does most all the cleanup. We are both retired now. I am a recipe hound, love to try new things. I suppose my cooking methods have evolved from Mid West Ohio, Southern, Soul, Cajun, Creole, & German, all of which I love.